The Japanese art of hikaru dorodango involves hand-shaping mud and soil into smooth, shining earthen spheres. P2 Photography caught up with dorodango practitioner Bruce Gardner in the second installation of their “Buck the Cubicle” video series for an inside look at the odd yet hypnotizing hobby. After forming an initially wet ball of mud from soil found just outside his studio, Gardner slowly works layer …
With cannabis culture quickly maturing, fledgling marijuana brands have needed to adapt their identities to appeal to the masses, not just the dorm room stoners. Peeking into the possible future of cannabis businesses, Surface Magazine recently reached out to 12 leading design studios with one simple brief: create a fictionalized aspirational marijuana brand. And the results—which include a bag of potato chips filled with pot …
At this year’s TED conference, artist R Luke DuBois shared with the audience a few of his latest works. While he doesn’t paint, draw or take photos, DuBois can weave together incredibly complex portraits of his subjects through unconventional applications of programming and code. In one project, he downloads millions of dating profiles to map out the way people speak about themselves across the country. …
